A multi-award-winning Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the University of Cambridge, Ian is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. As a renowned pioneer of adolescent mental health treatment, he was among the first practitioners to describe and investigate clinical depression in young people.
Getting to the root cause of adolescent mental illness and finding new forms of treatment has been at the heart of Ian’s work, and in 1998 he was the recipient of the Nathan Cummings Prize (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) for original research into depression.
Other accolades received by Ian include a Community Medical Award (Association of British Industries) and the Mental Health Research Network Annual Science Prize.
Ian has published more than 300 research papers and clinical reports, as well as writing five books with the most recent being about BPI and co-authored with Dr Raphael Kelvin. Awarded a Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999, he received an OBE for Psychiatry Research in 2018.
Ian enjoys keeping fit, walking his golden retriever dog, especially on the North Norfolk Coast, and continues to write about and research adolescent mental health.